Premium screening event of new movie "Nidome no natsu, nidoto aenai kimi"

The premium screening event of new movie "Nidome no natsu, nidoto aenai kimi" was held at Shinjuku Wald 9 on 10 August which was attended by the director Nakanishi Kenji and cast members Murakami Nijirou, Yoshida Madoka, AKB48's Kato Rena and Yamada Yuki. The movie which is based on the same-titled light novel by Akagi Hirotaka, features Murakami as the lead character Shinohara Satoshi who is a senior high school student while the heroine Moriyama Rin will played by Yoshida Madoka who is the vocalist cum guitarist in girls' band Tankobuchin. Other co-stars include Kikuchi Akiko and Honjo Manami. The movie will be shown in cinemas from 1 September.

The story describes how Shinohara Satoshi who just transferred to Aoba Kita Senior School, tries to form a band which can perform during the cultural festival. However, the school rules forbids band activities. Despite so, Shinohara manages to form a five-member band including his classmate Moriyama Rin. The performance turns out to be a success but Rin collapses whereby Shinohara first learns of her suffering from a terminal illness. Just before Rin passes away, Shinohara confesses his feelings for her but is rejected by her who reacts violently to the confession. Shinohara realises that he shouldn't have done that and deeply regrets tormenting Rin with his action. 2 months after her death, Shinohara is still plagued by his guilt and accidentally goes back into time at six months ago. This time, he will try to suppress his feelings and allow Rin to leave this world with a smile.

In line with the movie's theme, the cast were asked what they would like to redo if they could go back in time. Murakami said that he would like to go back to an era which he has never experienced before as such the dinosaur age or the ancient age and stir up havoc while riding a Segway. As for Kato, she expressed her wish to go back to 8 years ago when she made her debut in AKB48 because she had a very ugly hairstyle then. Yoshida then commented that she would like to go back to when she was in Primary 5 because she accidentally fell down during a cheerleading dance while wearing a mini skirt.

As the cast all appeared in their school uniforms worn in the movie, Murakami said that he was 19 when he filmed the movie and he has not worn an uniform since then so he was not used to wearing it. On the other hand, Yamada who is 26 years old, said that Murakami teased him about wearing an uniform and even called him "Teacher!" which made everyone in the audience laugh.

As for playing band members, the cast did not use stand-ins and played the music themselves. Murakami who already knew how to play the guitar before the filming, said that he was very happy about  being able to perform personally in the movie although there were scenes where he felt that he could do better in. Yoshida who had been in "Tankobuchin" since she was in primary 6, said that it was refreshing to perform in another band this time.

Source: Eiga.com